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Prevalence Of Iron Deficiency In Children With Cyanotic Heart Disease Seen At Kenyatta National Hospital And Mater Hospital Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2009-12)
OBJECTIVE:
To establish the prevalence of iron deficiency among children with cyanotic heart disease.
DESIGN:
Cross-sectional study.
SETTING:
The study was carried out at Kenyatta National Hospital and Mater Hospital ...
The selection and use of essential medicines.
(University of Nairobi,, 2009)
This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The first part contains a review of the report of the meeting of the Expert Subcommittee ...
Four-country surveillance of intestinal intussusception and diarrhoea in children
(University of Nairobi., 2009-03)
AIM:
Establishment of baseline epidemiology of intussusception in developing countries has become a necessity with the possibility of reintroduction of rotavirus vaccine. The current study assessed the seasonal trend in ...
Pediatric HIV-1 in Kenya:pattern and correlates of viral load and association with mortality
(2009)
Background—There is limited information regarding the pattern and correlates of viral replication
in vertically HIV-1–infected children and its role on their outcomes in resource-limited settings.
Methods—HIV-1–infected ...
Risk factors for cardiac dysfunction in children on treatment for cancer at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi.
(University of Nairobi., 2009-12)
OBJECTIVE:
To determine the point prevalence of abnormal cardiac function and to assess the risk factors for cardiac dysfunction in paediatric oncology patients on treatment at Kenyatta National Hospital.
DESIGN:
Descriptive ...
Incidence of thyroid malignancy among goitrous thyroid lesions from the Sarawak General Hospital 2000-2004.
(University of Nairobi, 2009-07)
INTRODUCTION:Thyroid cancer is the most common among all endocrine malignancies. The worldwide prevalence of goitre in the general population is estimated at 4-7 percent and the incidence of malignancy in goitrous thyroid ...
Breadth of neutralizing antibody response to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is affected by factors early in infection but does not influence disease progression.
(University of Nairobi, 2009-10)
The determinants of a broad neutralizing antibody (NAb) response and its effect on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) disease progression are not well defined, partly because most prior studies of a broad NAb ...
Serologic testing algorithm for recent HIV Seroconversion in estimating incidence of HIV-1 among adults visiting a VCT centre at a Kenyan tertiary health institution
(2009-05)
Objective: To determine HIV high risk groups among adults visiting Kenyatta National Hospital Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre by use of Serologic Testing Algorithm for Recent HIV Seroconversion (STARHS).
Design: ...
Short report: Clinical and molecular evidence for a case of Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) in Kenya
(University of Nairobi., 2009)
Mycobacterium ulcerans infection is an emerging disease that causes indolent, necrotizing skin lesions known as Buruli ulcer (BU) and occasional contiguous or metastatic bone lesions. Buruli ulcer is named after Buruli ...
IRF6 Gene Variant In Non-syndromic Clefts of a Kenyan Population
(University of Nairobi., 2009)